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Technical White Paper—VDI Graphics Acceleration on a Dell MX7000 Modular Chassis
Executive summary Technology overview Test environment and configuration
Test environment
Performance testing process Results summary NVIDIA nVector SPECviewperf 13 + nVector Lite, 3ds Max, Multi VMs test NVIDIA nVector + nVector Lite, SPECviewperf 13, Maya, Multi VMs test Guidance for configuring VMware Horizon virtual workstations on MX7000 Configuration for Knowledge Worker virtual desktops on MX7000 Network guidance for an MX7000 VDI environment Conclusion References Appendix A: Technical specifications of MX7000 modular platform Appendix B: Amulet Hotkey Modular Workstation–Data Center Optimized Appendix C: NVIDIA nVector, SPECviewperf 13, Multi VMs test Appendix D: NVIDIA nVector, SPECviewperf 13, Single VM test

Test environment

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Test environment

  • This section describes the hardware and software components that we used to validate the solution.

    We built a three-node VMware vSAN cluster using Dell EMC MX740c compute sleds for this testing, as shown in the following table:

    Table 1.      MX7000 test environment

    Node number

    Use

    Model

    Node1

    Management

    MX740c

    Node 2

    Compute

    MX740c

    Node 3

    Workstation testing performed by our partner, Amulet Hotkey. See Appendix B: Amulet Hotkey Modular Workstation–Data Center Optimized.

    MX740c

    Hardware component configuration

    The following table shows the hardware components that we used in the solution configuration:

    Table 2.      MX740c hardware component configuration for the compute node 

    Enterprise platform

    CPU

    Memory

    RAID controller

    Drive config

    Network

    GPU

    MX740c

    Intel Xeon Gold 6254 (18 Core @ 3.10 GHz)

    384 GB @2933 MT/s

    Dell HBA 330 Adapter

    2 x 120 GB M.2

     

    1x 800 GB SSD (WI)

     

    2x 1.92 TB SSD (RI)

    Qlogic 25 GbE 2P rNDC

    2 x NVIDIA T4

    GPU cards per compute sled

    Software component configuration

    The following table lists the software component version details:

    Table 3.      Software components 

    Component

    Description/version

    Hypervisor

    VMware vSphere ESXi 6.7 U3

    Broker technology

    VMware Horizon 7.10.1

    Broker database

    Microsoft SQL 2014

    Management VM operating system

    Microsoft Windows Server 2016

    Virtual desktop operating system

    Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit 1803

    Office application suite

    Microsoft Office 2016 Professional Plus

    Test Software

    NVIDIA nVector (SPECviewperf 13) + nVector Lite 1.0

    Thin Client (End Point)

    Dell Wyse 5070 WIE10 1809 + Pentium Silver J5005 processor (4C @ 1.5 GHz, 10W TDP)

    Virtual workstation configuration

    The following table shows the configuration of the VDI virtual workstation VM:

    Table 4.      Workstation VM configuration

    vCPUs

    ESXi memory configured

    NVIDIA vGPU profile

    Screen resolution

    Operating system

    6

    32 GB

    T4-8Q

    1920 X 1080

    Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit